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And let's talk about it is

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a rule. He was born in
forty three and you're

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a very memorable story you
sure. Yes. When my mother was

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in labor. She already had her suit case
packed. She said that that she was going to

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you know have the baby that night or perhaps
the next morning and my father decided

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he would stay home with kanji who
was three years old three and

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a half years old and so my
brother who was a year and

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a half younger than me had the suitcase
and my mother decided to you know it was

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time to go. It was about eight or nine
o'clock it was really dark outside. But the

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hospital's just up the road a block
and a half away. And so. Aki carried

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a suitcase and my mother being done me.
And every so many steps she would have to

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stop to take

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a deep breath. We didn't have any telephones
in camp and. My mother said the doctor

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said it was not going to be

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a difficult and they're free. So just get
to the hospital in plenty of time because

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she already had three children she knew
what the signs were and the labor pains

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where she would be do something for
herself and then she decided I know

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sometimes that she wasn't taking

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a breath she would be rubbing her back and
then we'd stop you know for her. But she

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never flinched. She never cried and we
just kept going and it was uphill I

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remember that and she would lean on us and
she was so cheerful she was not angry or

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upset my brother and I were the ones we
wanted to her to hurry up and get up there

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so we could go back hoping. But so we took
her to the hospital and red to make sure

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that she had registered and she just waved
goodbye to us and said everything was

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going to be OK and then the next morning
an ambulance driver came down and he had

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no patients in the ambulance but he
drives down to announce to us that

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a so had been born. Before she was in
labor. I could not go up there to get the

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ambulance to come to
because it was going to be

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a normal uneventful delivery. So

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when I had my first child. I certainly
appreciated what my mother went through and

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how stoic she was and felt. But
the biggest disappointment was

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that I didn't have

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a baby sister. It's the baby brother
again. But I saw you with the baby in

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the better. My mother nursed him so it
was you know. It wasn't too hard and

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they did have a system
where an older woman not

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a full fledged nurse but she would come.
I think she came every day for about she

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stayed in the hospital for at least

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a week. And then they brought her
home in the ambulance and then. Oh

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she came to wash the diapers and make
sure that he had enough diapers because I

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couldn't do it all by myself and then I
think she came to help with the laundry for

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maybe four weeks but by the time he was
five or six weeks old my mother was doing

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everything she was doing before he was born
of course I was helping and I wasn't in

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school because he was in born in June
July and August hard time for me.

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And doing

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a lot of the laundry. Did she do much for

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you or did you use formula
do. I don't remember

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a formula. I know that does she
breastfed kanji until he was almost

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a year old so I think she did the same thing
with the. A's so my MIL it's the thing

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that concerned me the most that we had
enough dry diapers. Because when winter came

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along it was hard to dry the diapers that
work disposable diapers at that time. And

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so that was my responsibility make sure
there are enough diapers at least four or

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five. Yes.